The private gas supply company "Naftogaz of Ukraine" has started trading in household appliances. Yes, you didn't hear me. It is with such news that the company sends letters to its gas consumers.
The store is called "Naftogaz tech" and is located on the website of "Naftogaz" itself — tech.gas.ua.
JSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine", as indicated on its site, is the largest state-owned company of Ukraine, currently headed by Oleksiy Chernyshov, who replaced Yuri Vitrenka in this position. The founder and sole shareholder of the company is the state.
However, the gas supply company Naftogaz є private, how specified in its financial statements. The director is Serhii Mykolayovych Belyaev. The founder of the company with 100% share is GAZ UKRAINE, a subsidiary of the NATIONAL JOINT STOCK COMPANY NAFTOGAZ UKRAINE, registered at the same address, the director is Oleksiy Kostyantinovych Skryl. This company is also private.
The founder of the last company is the joint-stock company NAFTOGAZ UKRAINE NATIONAL JOINT-STOCK COMPANY. According to Youcontrol there is state property.
Regarding the household appliances store, the store operator said that the appliances are not sold by Naftogaz, but by a private company NRP LLC, company manager Andriy Yuldashev.
The same company specified as a representative of the well-known chain of household and electronic appliances MOYO.
Final beneficiaries owners LLC "NRP" is Artyukh Serhiy Kostiantynovych and Stolnikov Leonid Olimpiyovych, who are also on the list of owners of the joint-stock company "ALTBANK".
He also belongs to the owners of ALTBANK Ihor Olegovich Voloh, who, in addition to Ukrainian citizenship, also has the citizenship of Cyprus and Belarus.
Ihor Volokh from 2005 to 2007, he was the deputy chairman of the board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval. In 2007-2014, he worked as the first deputy chairman of the board of Universal Bank, and from 2016 he headed the board of Neos Bank (AltBank). As of December 21, 2020, Ihor Volokh was dismissed from the position of chairman of the board at his own request. He remains a shareholder of Altbank as the owner of 20,070967% of shares.
As for the beneficiaries of LLC "NRP" Artyukh Serhiy and Stolnikov Leonid, they have been for a long time are engaged in trade in computer equipment through the network MOYO.
Also in 2018, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed them to create the company "ERC Holding GmbH" in Vienna (Austria), engaged in leasing commercial real estate in Kyiv, Donetsk and Lviv regions; provision of banking and financial services on the securities market; wholesale and retail sale of computer and peripheral equipment and software; production and sale of oil, animal fats, flour and cereals.
There is a question about the very fact of posting on the site of the gas monopolist on the subdomain of a private hardware store. If this is legal, can other Ukrainian entrepreneurs place their stores or any other information about the business on the Naftogaz website.
